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  • 29 Sep 2010
    Charting America's decline in church attendance

    So sudden have been the marked trends showing disaffection from organised religion that leaders have not internalised the evidence, says Martin Marty. They need to wake up. “Being spiritual” alone is not going to help keep the stories, the language of ethics, and the pool of volunteers embedded in religious bodies thriving.

  • 15 Jan 2010
    Reconsidering the secular - project
  • 23 Dec 2009
    Searching for God after Christendom

    Revivals, awakenings, ethnic shifts, mobility, and religious marketplaces have always invited drifting, says Martin Marty. But recent Pew research on the US situation suggests that there is such a big quantitative shift that it amounts to a change in the quality of commitments.

  • 23 Dec 2009
    Welsh university pioneers new work on religious experience

    While psychological researchers sometimes ask volunteers about their dreams, a unit at the University of Wales in Lampeter, in mid Wales, collects religious experiences that can used as a resource for theology students.

  • 10 Dec 2009
    Americans' religious beliefs are getting mixed up

    According to a new report based on a recent national survey by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life, large numbers of Americans engage in multiple religious practices, blending elements of diverse traditions.

  • 27 Oct 2009
    Poetry, tears and religion

    Several of the greatest poets in the English tradition from the Renaissance onward have sought to replace God with the human imagination, says Michael Robbins. They have succeeded and failed in interesting ways.

  • 17 Aug 2009
    Prayer for the non-pious

    Many people have lost touch with ‘institutional religion’, but not with spirituality. Henry Morgan explains how people’s passions and everyday experience can reconnect them with the God they already knew, and with prayer as a natural, integrating, liberating activity.

  • 14 Apr 2009
    Religion and the Market: are they in conflict?

    The global revival of religion has been predominantly fuelled by the creation of a religious free market defined by entrepreneurship, choice and personal revelation.

  • 14 Apr 2009
    Religion and the Market: are they in conflict?

    The global revival of religion has been predominantly fuelled by the creation of a religious free market defined by entrepreneurship, choice and personal revelation.

  • 15 Mar 2009
    Changing belief patterns in the USA

    The dominance of religion in American public life has taken a different form to that of Europe under Christendom. But the US picture is changing too.